Wednesday 5 June 2013

ha full disk 4th June

ha full disk by Mark Townley
ha full disk, a photo by Mark Townley on Flickr.

All the activity on the sun at the current time is heading rapidly towards the western limb, and will slowly but surely pass out of view in the next couple of days. Sunspot AR11762 in the sun's southern hemisphere has developed a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbours energy for X-class solar flares. So far, however, the sunspot is producing only low-level B- and C-class eruptions. The calm before the storm? Stay tuned. taken with the DS40 @ f10, DMK31 camera.